Cwm-yr-Eglwys / Dinas / Dinas Cross

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view of church exterior - west façade

Scene Description: Source caption: "Last standing wall of church at Cwm-yr-Eglwys".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Helen Penrhiw, 2011

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 23 July 2009 by Helen Penrhiw [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2249553] [accessed 10 February 2019]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: the frontline location of the church on the present breakwater obviates its exposure in the bay; the Royal Charter Storm of October 1859 badly damaged the church and it was abandoned thereafter

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan Hughes, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 November 2018 by Alan Hughes [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5983128] [accessed 10 February 2019]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "The old parish church of Dinas, Pembrokeshire, prior to its destruction".

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Image Source: digital image of a hand-coloured 1830 print of a drawing by Henry Gastineau (1791-1876); engraved by Edward Kennion; in "Wales Illustrated" (London: Jones & Co,1831) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CwmyreglwysGastineau.jpg] [accessed 10 February 2019]

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view of church exterior in context - west view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anthony Parkes, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 April 2010 by Anthony Parkes [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1810487] [accessed 10 February 2019]

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view of church interior - west end

Scene Description: the inside wall of the west end of the church; the breakwater wall was built right next to it

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Andrews, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2011 by Chris Andrews [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2444996] [accessed 10 February 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13865CWM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Brynach
Church Patron Saints: St. Brynach
Church Location: Feidr Fawr, Dinas Cross, Newport SA42 0SA, Wales, UK
Country Name: Wales
Location: Pembrokeshire
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A487, equidistant (5-6 km) between Fishguard, on the WSW, and Newport, on the ENE. Cwm-yr-Eglwys is a hamlet of Dinas Cross
Historical Region: Hundred of Cemais
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest
Church Notes: original church said to be of pre-Conquest date; badly damaged in storms in the 1850s; abandoned thereafter and partly demolished
No individual entry found for Dinas Cross of Cwm-yr-Eglwys in the Domesday survey. [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.02414, -4.8935
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 1′ 26.9″ N, 4° 53′ 36.6″ W
UTM: 30U 370086 5765416

REFERENCES

Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002